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7-24-18 PipeCo Says No; Borough Says Yea To Pipe Terminus

That's a fine kettle of fish! A pipeline says no and the local government says yes. Our thanks to Larry Persily for this report AGDC says Port MacKenzie ‘not feasible’ for LNG termina Larry Persily. Northern Gas Pipelines photo by Dave Harbourt By Larry Persily paper@alaskan.com July 23, 2018 TheSeveral months of additional review did not change the opinion of the state’s North Slope natural gas project development team that Nikiski is a better site than the Matanuska-Susitna Borough-promoted Port MacKenzie for a multibillion-dollar gas liquefaction plant and [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-07-24T11:45:26-09:00July 24th, 2018|AGDC, China, Commentary, History, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments

7-23-18 Fairbanks Gas Supply Competition

Most Relevant News For Our Readers Public Comments Due For Donlin Mine's Reclamation And Closure Plans Public comments are due for the proposed Donlin mine’s reclamation and closure plans. AK: The journey of Alaska’s go-to man in China Alaska’s does $1 billion dollars worth of trade with China every year — it’s the state’s largest trading partner. State officials: Ballot Measure 1 will make some construction projects impossible Ballot Measure 1 is intended to boost protections for salmon, but a series of state officials told lawmakers Friday… AGDC President: [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-07-23T16:15:52-09:00July 23rd, 2018|AGDC, AIDEA, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary, Competition, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

7-20-18 Alaska’s Socialist LNG Export Project

What about competitive position of the Alaska LNG idea? The greatest, current competitive failing of the Alaska government LNG project -- aside from its crippling socialist model -- is that its competitors do not have to include the cost of an 800 mile arctic pipeline into the financing plans of their near-tidewater LNG projects. In addition, most of the competition has better labor costs, better logistics, better climatic conditions, and better investor owned management incentives, discretion and market-place reaction times. -dh Today's Alaska LNG News and Our Comment: [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-08-16T17:24:43-09:00July 20th, 2018|AGDC, Alaska Governor Bill Walker, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, China, Commentary, Competition, Crony Capitalism, FERC, Interstate Gas, LNG, Russia|0 Comments

7-17-18 ConocoPhillips Continues To Expand Alaska North Slope Oil Wealth Resource

ConocoPhillips Expects Another Active Exploration and Appraisal Season in 2019 “We believe that the company’s Alaska plan aligns with our disciplined, returns-focused strategy, supports Alaska’s economy and creates significant value for shareholders,” said Ryan Lance, chairman and chief executive officer (Photo). “Alaska provides competitive investment opportunities and will generate profitable growth from diversified investments with significant exploration upside. We are proud of the value we create for the State of Alaska through the revenues we generate, the jobs we create and the community investments we make. Our shareholders realize [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-07-17T11:13:19-09:00July 17th, 2018|AGDC, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, China, Commentary, LNG, You Read It Here First|1 Comment

6-29-18 DOE Offers Gas Liquids Primer

News Alert Department of Energy Publishes Natural Gas Liquids Primer Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published the 2018 Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) primer that highlights the resource potential of NGLs, with a focus on the Appalachian region. This publication provides an important update of a previous version from 2017, reporting even larger projections for ethane production from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays than previously estimated. The 2018 primer includes new data from the reference case for the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2018 Annual Energy Outlook as well [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-06-29T11:42:59-09:00June 29th, 2018|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

6-26-18 Interesting Items

Alaska LNG Project and Related News AGDC receives approval for Alaskan pipeline project. Interfax Global Energy. Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) has received environmental approval for one of two pipeline projects it is considering building, according ... Our Commentary: Remember how Alaska's Governor bragged about how the Chinese were a great trading partner...Alaska's largest trading partner. ...and that partnership was based in part on the Alaska salmon the Chinese purchased. And that is supposed to prove how good a partner China would be re: the state owned, bureaucrat controlled Alaska LNG scheme? And note [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-06-26T09:45:42-09:00June 26th, 2018|AGDC, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, China, Commentary, Pedro van Meurs|0 Comments

6-20-18 The Show (Archive) Must Go On!

We've been laying low for several weeks due to shoulder replacement surgery and related issues...for which we thank readers' patience. We're slowly repairing, able to type a little and now focused on adding appropriate northern energy content into our searchable archives as before. -dh BIG NEWS TODAY: Trump repeals Obama's destructive, duplicative Ocean Policy E.O. See this letter from the National Ocean Policy Coalition below, column right. -dh Today's Latest Northern Energy News: Oil, Gas & LNG Readers: Download the "six behaviors" below for important [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-06-22T14:50:36-09:00June 20th, 2018|AGDC, Alaska Governor Bill Walker, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, China, Commentary, Control Government Spending, Federal Progress, Korea, Ocean Policy, OCS, Trump Administration Energy Initiatives|0 Comments

5-21-18 BP – ConocoPhillips Talks – Enviro Activists Caught Lying

Alaska trade delegation leaves for China for more business opportunities. Xinhua. The group includes the Alaska Gasline Development Corp, which is the state's major energy infrastructure developer, seafood companies, a baby food ... LNG/Gas News Briefs Courtesy: Larry Persily Larry Persily. Northern Gas Pipelines photo by Dave Harbour Oil and gas news for May 21, 2018 Anadarko closes in on financing for Mozambique LNG project (Reuters; May 18) - Anadarko Petroleum is seeking to raise a record $14 billion to $15 billion from banks and export credit agencies for [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-05-21T12:45:44-09:00May 21st, 2018|AGDC, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, China, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Global Warming, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

5-17-18 Support National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska Energy TODAY!

National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Deadline TODAY! Our friends with Resource Development Council for Alaska remind us of today's deadline for commenting on another outstanding petroleum reserve project. (Read Full Alert. See RDC's submitted comment letter here) We join RDC in commenting and urging our readers to do the same: The comment deadline for the Greater Mooses Tooth 2 (GMT2) project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is today. ConocoPhillips Alaska submitted an application to move forward with the project in August 2015. The comment period pertains to a Draft Supplemental Environmental [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-05-18T13:24:40-09:00May 17th, 2018|AGDC, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Arctic Policy, Commentary, NPR-A|0 Comments

5-15-18 Asian LNG Projects Involve Saving/Losing Face

Troublesome Alaska Gas Pipeline/LNG Issues Involve the Saving/Losing of "Face" Opinion by Dave Harbour Understanding Asian culture and customs is critical for creating durable Asian business relationships Alaska has historically enjoyed business relationships with various Asian countries, including China, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan. These relationships have traditionally evolved among private buyers and sellers of Alaska's natural resources, including minerals, liquefied natural gas (LNG), timber and seafood products. In some of these cases, government officials have used their 'bully pulpits" usefully: to diplomatically support these transactions, but [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-05-17T09:38:34-09:00May 15th, 2018|AGDC, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Arctic Policy, China, Commentary, FERC, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Japan, Korea, LNG|0 Comments

4-26-18 Alaskanomics and Alaska’s Natural Resource Wealth

Alaskanomics Scott Goldsmith. Northern Gas Pipelines photo by Dave Harbour We commend Northrim Bank (Northrim and its public service web page, Alaskanomics) for having long supported an approach adopted by Dr. Scott Goldsmith, now retired from the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), the "three legged stool". This analogy equates the stability of the stool to an economy supported equally by 1. oil & gas industry taxes and spending, 2. federal government spending and 3. other resources. The only alteration we would suggest to the stool [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-04-30T10:18:33-09:00April 26th, 2018|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary, Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

4-24-18 Important Reader Comment

We appreciate the lucid and studied comments of our readers, including this one reflecting our last Friday's editorial: Author: Donald M. Bullock Jr. URL: https://northerngaspipelines.com/4-20-18-should-alaskan-politicians-align-their-states-future-with-communist-chinas/ Comment: Very well written Mr. Harbour. It is painful watching the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) going down the same unproductive path as the dead Alaska Gasoline Port Authority (AGPA). At this time, AGDC has no gas to sell. The State of Alaska also has no gas to sell until those lessees that have the exclusive right to produce the gas actually produce and convey [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-04-25T07:09:56-09:00April 24th, 2018|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Reader Comment|0 Comments

4-20-18 Should Alaskan Politicians Align Their State’s Future With Communist China’s?

Alaska’s Imprudent LNG Project Reader question: Should Alaskan Politicians Align Their State's Future With Communist China's -- or, instead rely on free enterprise development of Alaska's natural gas transportation system--WHEN IT BECOMES ECONOMICAL? Scroll down to answer in comment section. By Dave Harbour (NGP authorizes reprint of its editorials with condition that links be provided to such reprints.) As my kids would might say, it blew my mind this week when China’s news blog, Xinhua, announced, “The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) said on Thursday that it has signed [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-04-20T14:58:59-09:00April 20th, 2018|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

4-11-18

Canada's Pipeline Obstacles Ref: Our 4-7-18 Post Braid: Coming soon, the NDP bill to choke off fuel to BC. Calgary Herald. Called the Preserving Canada's Economic Prosperity Act, it will enable cuts ofAlberta fuel shipments to B.C.'s Lower Mainland. This will likely apply to oil, natural gas and refined products, including gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel. And the restrictions probably won't just apply to pipeline shipments. Insuring a pipeline: Kinder Morgan faces risks that only government can address. CBC.ca. The resulting Pipeline Debate was one of the most intense political events in Canadian history. The Conservatives under John Diefenbaker were strongly opposed, [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-04-11T10:20:43-09:00April 11th, 2018|AGDC, Alaska Governor Bill Walker, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Energy East Pipeline, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Global Warming|0 Comments

4-7-18 Canadian Liberals To The Rescue? Amazing Chutzpah!

Canadian liberals and their pro-anarchy, anti-pipeline, enviro-activist allies caused the death or delay of multiple pipeline modes capable of marketing Canadian oil & gas. Now, with the economy crashing, liberals are positioning themselves as energy transportation saviors. What Chutzpah! -dh Justin Trudeau defends his support for oilsands and pipelines during Fort McMurray visit. CBC.ca. "For 10 years Stephen Harper talked the oilsands up and weren't able to get [pipelines] done." Trudeau said he looked forward to sitting down with industry leaders later Friday to hear more about how the Liberal government can improve oil and gas regulations. [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-04-07T08:52:45-09:00April 7th, 2018|AGDC, Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Canadian Energy Policy, China, Commentary, Competition, Control Government Spending, Energy East Pipeline, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Global Warming, Mackenzie Valley Oil & Gas Pipelines, NEB|0 Comments

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